# Disable HTML Formatting for Posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-html-formatting-for-posts/110565
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-html-formatting-for-posts/110565 "2019-03-03T14:31:23Z")
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### Author: ![Alfarhan\_Zahedi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alfarhan_zahedi/32/141591_2.png) [@Alfarhan\_Zahedi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alfarhan_Zahedi)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-html-formatting-for-posts/110565/1 "2019-03-03T14:31:23Z")

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Hi.  
Our forum is the one for budding programmers. Now, many of the users are inexperienced and have just begun to learn the art of coding. So, while posting their questions/suggestions on the forum, they miss providing back-ticks while including their code. And as you can guess, the result is not good.

`#include <iostream>` becomes #include

I suppose, the interpreter considers `<iostream> ` as a HTML tag and hides it.

I do not want this behaviour. So is there any way I can selectively enable HTML tags ? Like I want to keep `<h1>, <h2>, <b>, <i>` etc, but I do not want the interpreter hiding `<iostream>` and other similar words or sequences of characters.

How can I achieve this ?

Any suggestion would be really great!

Thanks!

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